FORCES All Hands Meeting - November 13-14, 2014

FORCES Annual Review Meeting - November 13-14, 2014

Westin Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

MEETING AGENDA
A PDF version of the program is available here.

Thursday, November 13, 2014
  Welcome and Introductions
08:30-09:15 Welcome and Overview
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley); Larry Rohrbough (Berkeley)
  Modeling for Resilience
09:15-09:45 Resilience Modeling and Model-Based Design for CPS
Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)
09:45-10:15 A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Cyber-Security
Demos Teneketzis (Michigan)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Progress Towards System-Security Co-Design
Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)
11:00-11:30 Network Neutrality and CPS
Galina Schwartz (Berkeley)
11:30-12:30 Lunch
  Operating Through Attacks (Part 1)
12:30-13:00 Resilient Monitoring and Control Algorithms for Distribution Networks
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
13:20-13:40   Resilient Monitoring of CPS in the Presence of Faults and Adversarial Attacks
Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)
  FORCES Young Researchers Presentations
13:40-13:48 Frequency Regulation by Aggregations of Buildings
Max Balandat (Berkeley
13:48-13:56 Metrization, Simulation and First-Order Approximation for Networked CPS
Sam Burden (Berkeley)
13:56-14:04 Blind Identification via Lifting
Roy Dong (Berkeley)
14:04-14:12 Resilient CPS Monitoring
Aron Laszka (Vanderbilt)
14:12-14:20 Competition in Electricy Markets with Renewable Energy Sources
Ali Kakhbod (MIT)
14:20-14:28 Vulnerability Assessment of Electricity Distribution Networks
Devendra Shelar (MIT)
14:28-14:36 Control of Water Networks: Geometric Programming Approach
Lina Sela (MIT)
14:36-14:45 Multi-Dimensional Forward Contracts Under Uncertainty for Electricity Markets
Hamid Tavafoghi (Michigan)
14:45-15:00 Break
  Defenses and Economic Incentives
15:00-15:30 Attack Surface Analysis and Program Hardening of CPS Systems
Chao Zhang (Berkeley); Dawn Song (Berkeley)
15:30-16:00  Risk-Limiting Dynamic Contracts for Direct and Indirect Load Control
Insoon Yang (Berkeley), Claire Tomlin (Berkeley)
16:00-16:30  Effects of Risk on Privacy Contracts for Demand-Side Management
Lillian Ratliff (Berkeley)
16:30-17:30 FORCES Education and Outreach
Aimee Tabor (Berkeley); Kena Hazelwood-Carter (Berkeley); Saurabh Amin (MIT)
17:30 POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, November 14, 2014
  Keynote Speaker
09:00-10:00 Smart Grid Demonstration Results and Emerging Challenges for the Grid
Matt Wakefield (Director, Information, Communications and Cyber Security, EPRI)
10:00-10:15 Break
  Operating Through Attacks (Part II)
10:15-10:45 Modeling and Mitigating Disruptions in Networked, Multi-Agent CPS
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
10:45-11:15 Robust Convergence of Distributed Routing with Heterogeneous Population Dynamics
Walid Krichene (Berkeley); Alex Bayen (Berkeley)
11:15-11:45 Scientific Value of FORCES
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
12:00 Wrap Up/End of Meeting
12:00-12:30 NSF / Advisory Board Caucus
12:30-13:00 NSF / Advisory Board Outbrief